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Any reason for me to spend on ECC Memory for my home lab virtualization hosts?
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ECC Memory for Home ESXi hosts?
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I do have ECC for the ESXi box (Xeon CPU) hosting my FreeBSD ZFS server; as ZFS heavy depend on memory I don't want to risk integrity of my data. The additional safety of ECC is for this purpose.
For my second ESXi-sandbox (i7 CPU) I use regular non-ECC; nothing "mission critical" on it.
For my second ESXi-sandbox (i7 CPU) I use regular non-ECC; nothing "mission critical" on it.
+1 for this. Its not really ESXi that creates the need for ECC, but the VM clients might. If you have an application where ECC is recommended/important in your client set (like a ZFS based file server) then ECC is still recommended when that client is virtualized. If none of your clients have an ECC requirement then neither does your ESXi host.
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Yea all my data is going to hosted on a synology RAID5, so I wont have ECC there. I do have backups to AWS Glacier.